Re: Reverse Relay?

A very ambitious undertaking I fear, too.  Neat idea, Paul, but
it requires that everybody have a legible, thorough, and user friendly
description of their language on-line with a comprehensive glossary
in both conlang-English and English-conlang.  (Well, you could do a
page search for an on-line glossary, but even so...).

I've suggested before that we have a game in which everyone chooses
somebody else's conlang to learn to say some short thing in.  This
would require a great deal of one-on-one discussion between you and
the author of the conlang you picked.  May be interesting.

The translation relay is down to five people, now; I will be leaving
for San Antonio a week from Thursday, so I probably won't be able
to play my part should Paul Bennett send me his translation the
day before.  I'll just have to do it when I come back.  Once I
do, though, I have a question.  Should members of the relay post
to the list after I've translated Paul's piece and my original
Teonaht, or should we post to the shorter relay list... in which
case, I either post a long message to conlang with the results in
order, or put it all on a webpage? (both may take some time.)

Sally
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Paul Bennett wrote:
>
> I'm probably premature on this one (as the current torch is still hurtling
> around), but I just had a wierd idea for the next relay.
>
> How about, instead of "Person A sends Language A to Person B.  Person B sends
> Language B to Person C, etc", we try a relay where the idea is to translate from
> you lang into the lang of the next person, ie: "Person A sends Language B to
> Person B.  Person B sends Language C to Person C, etc".  (obviously Person X is
> the "inventor" of Language X).
>
> Does anyone think that's a do-able idea?  Is there enough available info on each
> lang?  Would we need to precede it with a phase of "Person C sends Grammar &
> Roots C to Person B, Person B sends Grammar & Roots B to Person A, etc."?
>
> A very ambitious undertaking, I fear.
>
> Even worse, how about assigning the members in random order, and the languages
> to be used in a different random order?
>
> I think the results (and the commenting and discussion afterwards) could be
> absolutely fascinating!
>
> JM.02
>
> Paul
>
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